Words are really a mask, ' he said. 'They rarely express the true meaning; in fact they tend to hide it. If you can live in fantasy, then you don't need religion, since with fantasy you can understand that after death, man is reincorporated in the Universe. Once again I will say that it is not important to know whether there is something beyond this life. What counts is having done the right sort of work; if that is right, then everything else will be all right. The Universe, or Nature, is for me what God is for others. It is wrong to think that Nature is the enemy of man, something to be conquered. Rather, we should look upon Nature as a mother, and should peaceably surrender ourselves to it. If we take that attitude, we will simply feel that we are returning to the Universe as all other things do, all animals and plants. We are all just infinitesimal parts of the Whole. It is absurd to rebel; we must deliver ourselves up to the great current..Miguel Serrano
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When the great naturalist, Julian Huxley, wrote this, he was writing about the need to surrender ourselves to the Great Current. We are all but infinitesimal parts of the Whole, and to deny it would be absurd.
Source: C.g. Jung And Hermann Hesse: A Book Of Two Friendships
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